Garment-hanger.



N0. 695,0I9. Pafenied Mar. Il, |902.

L. S. WHITE.

GARMEHT HANGER4 (Application filed J uns 5, 2900.)

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WJZWESSELE 4 [J1/m72, T072:

UNITED STATES PATENT. rricn.

LOUISE S. WHITE, OF ESKRIDGE, KANSAS.

GARNI ENT-HANG ER.

SPECFICA'JION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,019, dated March 11, 1902. Application filed J" une 5, 1900. Serial No. 19,103. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom tmcty concern: From the upper portion of the plate or 56 Beit known that I, LOUISE S. WHITE, a citi- Y zen of the United States, residing at Eskridge,

in the county of Wabaunsee and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment -Hangersg and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to improvements in garment-hangers; and the object is to provide an article or device of the kind named which is simple in construction, reasonably strong in assemblage, and which when locked will prevent the removal of a garment surreptitiously from the hook thereof.

The invention will bev hereinafter fully speciiied and described and then the novelty particularly pointed out and claimed.

I have fully and clearly illustrated the invention in the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and wherein- Figure 1 is a side view of the device in elevation as secured to a vertical surface and showing the parts in position to receive a garment orarticle of wear. in elevation of the device as secured to a vertical surface and the locking-bar turned into vertical position and so locked, a garment being indicated in dotted lines as secured on the hook and against removal by the locking-bar. Fig. 3 is a front view, partly in section, showing a suitable bracket which may be secured in the desired position.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a bar, plate, or bracket, of metal,having openings 1 in its upper and lower portions at proper points, through which fastenings (nails or screws) may be projected to hold the device to a surface.

At the lower end of the plate A is formed a fixed curved arm or hook 2, constituting the garment-hook, the free or upper end or termination of which has placed thereon a tip 3, of any suitable yielding or elastic materialsuch as rubber, leather, or similar materialnot likely to injure or abrade the material of the garment suspended from the hook.

Fig. 2 is a side view bracket A is formed a horizontally-projected arm 4, rigid with the plate and disposed in vertical alinement with the hook 2 and formed with a lock seat or chamber 5, wherein is secured any kind of a lock adapted for the purpose of taking and holding the end of a hasp or arm extending from the locking-bar. To `the arm 4C is hinged or suitably jointed the locking-bar 6, adapted to be swung outward, as indicated in Fig. l of the drawings, and to be moved down into vertical position,as shown in Fig. 2 ofthe drawings, in which latter position it is locked by means of a rigid curved hasp or arm 7, extending upward, and the free end of which engages with the lock and is held therein against removal, except by re leasing the grasp ofthe lock therefrom by applying the opening-key. On the lower end of the locking-bar is arranged and secured by contraction or suitable adjustment ayelding or elastic tip 8, made of rubber or other suitable material. The lower end of the locking-bar stops short of the turned-up end of the hook, a space existing between the ends of the approaching terminations, as shown in the drawings, so that while a garment will be secured on the hook it will not be crimped or marred by the contact of the approaching ends of the bar and hook.

The use of the device is apparent. All that is necessary is to free the lock-bar from restraint and turn it outward until it assumes the position indicated in Fig. l or until the desired portion of the garment can be readily placed uponI the hook, when the locking-bar is turnedv down until the hasp engages the lock, when the garment is held locked on the hook.

The number of the device may be indicated at any desired or convenient part, as at No.

desire to secure by Letwith the plate, a yielding tip on the free end tical depending position, substantially as set 1o of the hook, a rigid arm projected horizonforth.

tally from the upper end of the fastening- In testimony whereof I aix my signature plate, a look in the said arm, a locking-bar n presence of two Witnesses. 5 hinged to the free end of the rigid arm and LOUISE s WHITE arranged to swing into vertical alinement with the hook and formed with a rigid hasp or arm Witnesses:

"Curved upwardly and formed to engage the FRED. D. WHITE, look and hold the locking-bar rigidly in ver- W. H. MELROSE. 

